This election is boring

11 Aug 2010
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Crikey’s Rundle had to say (annoyingly behind the Crikey paywall but well worth the read) about the low down on how crap this election here in Australia is. With nine days to go, I’m despondent about the state of kanga democracy. Australians deserve better. The state of this election is shameful.

Have I got that right? I mean have I got that right? Cos I don’t know how
the election looks from over there, but from over here… it looks like sh-t.
Beyond sh-t. Meta-sh-t.

M’esteemed colleague Dr Bahnisch asked why, given so many people think this
election is boring, what with all the hi-jinks and pile in of ex-PMs… The
answer is because boredom arises not from a lack of activity, but from a lack
of meaningful activity.

This election is boring… – because the disconnect between a genuine public
political process, and what is going on now, is so total that anything can
now follow from anything, and none of it presents a real case about how we
should organise things, how we should live our lives, which is what politics
is meant to be about.